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KA arts “Seonm a? , P bepeAse namie y * , “gue 443 COON " Q _ Dep-AD-Inv. oe « “(MSA Ferma tay crn? ve ® Ach Wine” f—UMTED STATES GOVERNMENT Se ~ Comp. Soot oe Memorandum Paes sh : Ider’. | vanes ome errs 2 Ing = a TO 2 Director, FBI DATES April 2 ped <i 7 Ber | Cw eee ‘FROM : Attorney general 4 ! Plan & Svab — Tkee, Tlesit. ij Spee. fev. suBJECT: National States Rights Party (NSRP) telephone Tims ot Extremist Matter ; ; ; Director See’y. — Domestic Security Investigation ss By memorandum dated April 12, 1976, you asked ! \ whether the Bureau's full investigation of the NSRP; poo © should be continued or terminated "in view of the UAE Re absence of recent known acts of violence by members Wawa ~ of NSRP.” Ae VG NS : 7 pr \ i The information provided by the Bureau does,’not “ indicate “specific and articulable facts giving / fA ; reason to believe that . . .NSRP is or may be engaged A, re in activities which involve or will involve the sb violation of federal law. .for the purpose of. 7 of depriving persons of their civil rights under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States," as provided by the Bases of Investigation set out in “ue 1/6 Though the the threatened harm could be ; ' the guidelines (I A.(4)). ye - . a _ a) The relevant factors as delineated in II-I (-(4)3 U4 TA 7... | when applied, do not indicate that a continued full -A* Ex investigation of NSRP is warranted. magnitude of characterized 1p ‘ as being great, there is no evidence of any immediate *Peg threat and little, if any, that the threatened harm ¢ 2 ‘4 " 7 } will ever occur. Finally,. there is "danger to privacy and free expression posed by a full investigation" ‘due to the intrusiveness of the techniques permissible under that type of investigation. uo ~ I have therefore concluded that the full investiws rows ne gation of the NSRP should be terminated. This, of course, does not preclude the Bureau from returning to the Department should new facts develop which would / warrant re-opening this investigation. a (a gee see Se pee v : . > eee By * _ a one . % ars — * vr « fet We Ge RE SS See cane a Ae * eT a 7 oP gt wt 4 on a Ok a ep . Op ret set at x » v ate ‘ at ee Soe fay? ~ F . * .y ¢ . cee) Nee ete Be” Of tet pie head cata Io aan 0 Pe” ce aur cake A eS ety’ ie? me